BB&N Parents Respond to Faculty Challenge

When BB&N Lower School parents Jim and Lisa Mooney read the article in Openings last summer announcing the Faculty Challenge Program, they did not hesitate to respond.

“The faculty is the foundation of BB&N,” noted Jim Mooney in a recent conversation about their very generous gift. “They create an experience far beyond facilities, far beyond almost anything and without the best faculty, everything else is compromised.

Pictured Above: Jim and Lisa Mooney P'18,'19

“For a parent, the faculty are the people to whom you’re entrusting your children, their care, and their development   It is paramount that the school your children attend have the best possible teachers, the most motivated, and the most stable faculty base possible. 

“BB&N’s location in Cambridge is among its greatest strengths but it is also a high cost proposition.  Being able to recruit and retain the best faculty you can is essential and BB&N must remain competitive in terms of salaries and other opportunities.”

The Faculty Challenge Program to which the Mooneys responded was launched last year through the successful creation of a $2 million challenge pool, which is being used to match gifts of $100,000 or more for the faculty endowment goal of the Opening Minds Campaign on a one-for-two basis; i.e., $1 from the pool will match every $2 received in qualifying gifts.  To date, 12 families have stepped forward to join the Mooneys with commitments totaling $3.2 million toward the Challenge’s $6 million goal. 

For more information on the Faculty Challenge Program or other commitments to support the faculty endowment goals of the Opening Minds Campaign, contact Woodie Haskins at woodie_haskins@bbns.org or 617-800-2720.